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World Tea PartyAt the Cowichan Valley Arts Centre, 2-139 Station Street, Duncan B.C. from August 6th through September 19th, Bryan Mulvihill aka Trolley Bus, World Tea Party, will be exhibiting recent 'calligraphitie' and 'shadowcalligraphitie' works. This tea master will attend at our opening reception tea party on Thursday August 6 from 4 p.m. through 8 p.m. Join the artist and curators for inspired conversations fueled by fresh teas from Trolley's world travels, accompanied by sushi and sake. This party is sure to be the fine arts event of August in the Cowichan Valley. Local valley ceramic artist, Margit Nellemann, will be featured in a display of fine tea and sake wares and a First Nations component of a Cowichan knitted tea cosy by John Samuel Harry round out the exhibition. Freshly returned from Paris exhibiting/performing at William Burroughs' "Naked Lunch at 50", Bryan Mulvihill, aka Trolley Bus, has been a part of the Vancouver art scene for more than 30 years. During that time he has dedicated himself to the study of calligraphy and eastern scholarship working with masters in Canada, India, Japan, China and where ever his pilgrimage brought him. Educated in fine art at UBC under Tom Burrows, Roy Kyooka, Glenn Lewis and Tony Onley, Mulvihill combines his philosophical studies with his conceptually based art practice. Trolley's technique is an accumulation of physical processes and technical considerations coming together in a `cut-up’ of cultural references, a grid pattern that allows the eye of each viewer to reconstruct their own image/word quotations. The outline of the shadow-image is affixed on the surface of either paper or textile, not through a photochemical process but with ink-brush strokes. In this case with the absence of a lens to mediate the image, the distance between the light source and the image achieves the focus allowing the ability to size the image to the particular screen surface in use. Over millenniums the 'way of the brush' in the cultures of China, Korea and Japan, an appreciation of capturing the spirit, energy, life force, 'Chi' in a single brush stroke is prime consideration. We share the common experience of our own, and others, shadows. Seeing them `cut up’ allows us in to the process of imagining or creating the human image. The fact that we cannot determine the race, age, nationality and often gender, from a shadow but that we can immediately locate it as human is especially inspiring. In traditional Buddhist visual aesthetic theory the word for 'art' is not a noun, as in the object but instead a verb, where the process of viewing a work creates the 'art' as experience in the person beholding the work. These works attempt to engage the beholders in the creative process of re-creating the basic human forms and gestured activity, giving experiential access to the 'spirit of the moment'. Gallery hours: Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., Thursday, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. For more inforamtion, please contact: the Arts Council at 250.746.1633 or cvartscouncil@shaw.ca. 
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